Mark 7:15-21

¹⁵Nothing that people eat causes God to consider them to be unacceptable. On the contrary, it is that which comes from people's ◄inner beings/hearts► that causes God to reject them.”

¹⁷After Jesus had left the crowd and then entered a house with the disciples, they asked him about the parable that he had just spoken.

¹⁸He replied, “◄ I am disappointed that you also do not understand what it means!/Why can you not understand what it means?► RHQ ◄You ought to understand that nothing that enters us from outside can cause God to consider us unacceptable to him./Can you not understand that nothing that enters us from outside of us can cause God to consider us unacceptable to him?► RHQ

¹⁹Instead of entering and ruining our minds/souls, it goes into our stomachs, and afterwards the refuse passes out of our bodies.” By saying this, Jesus was declaring that people can eat any food without causing God to reject them.

²⁰He also said, “It is the thoughts and actions that come from within people that cause God to consider them unacceptable to him.

²¹Specifically, it is people's innermost being that causes them to think things that are evil; they act immorally, they steal things, they commit murder.